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Concurrent Sessions I

WiTNY Enabling Gender Equity: Curriculum, Recruitment and Retention

(Community & Collaboration)

WiTNY, a partnership between CUNY and Cornell Tech, is designed to increase the collegiate participation of women in computer science and technology-related disciplines. With a focus on curriculum innovation, student recruitment and retention of women in these fields, WiTNY is funding 12 departmental grants that promise to move the needle. Panelists include faculty grant recipients. They will discuss the projects being pursued, the expected results and collaborative opportunities.

Andrea Shapiro Davis, Associate Vice Chancellor, CUNY

Susan Imberman, University Associate Dean for Technology Education, CUNY

Judith Spitz, Founding Program Director, Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York (WiTNY), Cornell Tech

William Sakas, Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Hunter College

Rosa Laura Zavala, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, School of Science, Health and Technology, Medgar Evers College

Douglas E. Salane, Chair and Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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Game Up Math! New, Innovative Digital Games for Developmental Algebra

(Workshop)

This workshop will showcase three digital mathematics games for college students created with an NSF grant and available for free. The games target beginning and elementary developmental algebra, as well as pre-calculus. Participants will get to play the games on iPads provided. Non-mathematicians are encouraged to come! Emphasis will be on using the games to improve student learning and engagement. Presenters will model how to encourage this. Games available at: https://mathgamesforstem.wordpress.com/.

Kathleen Offenholley, Professor

Fritz Cornely, Adjunct Professor

Sarah McAllister, Assistant Professor

Lina Woo, Associate Professor

All of Borough of Manhattan Community College

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Developing a Collaborative Model for Online/Hybrid Course Evaluation

(Pedagogy)

This panel presentation focuses on developing consistent, yet flexible, frameworks for evaluating the success of online/hybrid courses at Queens College. The panel will discuss the development of a collaborative pilot study for online course evaluation and the delivery of feedback and professional development for faculty. It will present various project elements, including the context of the collaborative inquiry, methods employed and preliminary findings.

Limarys Caraballo, Program Director for English Education

Jacqueline Darvin, Program Director for Secondary Literacy Education

Michelle Fraboni, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning

Rowena Li, Coordinator of Special Projects, Center for Teaching & Learning

James McElwaine, Professor of Music, Aaron Copland School of Music

Rachel Stern-Lockerman, Instructional Technologist, Center for Teaching & Learning

All of Queens College

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Website Accessibility in Practice

(Inclusive Accessibility)

This panel explores critical steps involved in making websites accessible for users with disabilities. We discuss some of the common issues facing CUNY websites and how to fix them. The panel will examine lessons learned from campus remediation efforts at the developer and administrative level. We highlight recent efforts to proactively create accessible sites used for the new University Faculty Senate site.

Arthur Downing, Vice President for Information Services / Dean of the Library, Baruch College

David Moretti, Director of Web Services, Queensborough Community College

Jan Mun, Information Architect, CUNY Central Communications and Marketing

Joseph Sherman, IT Accessibility Specialist, CUNY Office of Computing and Information Services

Access Through the Eyes of a Student: CSI’s Website Redesign

(Inclusive Accessibility)

The website, an extension of the physical locale, provides easy navigation, is responsive to mobile platforms and has great visuals and modern design elements. Ubiquitous access can be a challenge, especially when migrating content from an existing structure that contained complex pathways to content, was text heavy and was not ADA compliant. The College of Staten Island embarked on a redesign of its website (discovery through post-deployment) focusing on the goal of easy access.

Patricia Kahn, Assistant Vice President / Chief Information Officer

Joyce Taylor, Director of Applications & Web Development

Victor Magnami, Systems Manager

All of College of Staten Island

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Lehman 360 Student Platform

(Student Support Systems)

Lehman 360 places the student at the heart of the digital ecosystem and allows students, faculty and advisors to quickly access a more complete view of student data. The platform is mobile-responsive, personalized and highly visual. This session will provide background on Lehman 360 as a resource to

support student success, an overview of the design principles employed and a live demonstration. Please join us for an engaging discussion.

Ron Bergmann, Vice President for Technology / Chief Information Officer

Edi Ruiz, Assistant Vice President for Technology

Deira Pereyra, Director of Application Services

Eddie Rodriguez, Programmer

All of Lehman College

Student Success Analytics: An Illustration of Data Governance and Design

(Student Support Systems)

Queensborough’s Student Success Analytics BI Environment configuration is grounded in data governance best practices, including data mapping, QA and documentation of data origin, ETL logic and applicable business processes. The underlying data model is centered on Ralph Kimball’s conformed dimension design approach with no limitations joining data across the entire data model. On top of this data model rests Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) to surface the data in a logical, easy to understand and query environment. The ability to view longitudinal data at consistent, equivalent points in time year over year (for example – 10 days before term, start of term, term census date, etc.) provides insight into identifying trends. At this session, Queensborough will demonstrate Dashboards and Analyses developed using this design.

Sherri Newcomb, Senior Vice President / Chief Operating Officer

George Sherman, Chief Information Officer

Raj Vaswani, Manager of Strategic Technology Implementation & Integration

Christina Deonandan, IT Senior Associate

Marc Carpentier, Executive Director of Resource Planning & Analytics

Elisabeth Lackner, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment

Patrick Wynne, Institutional Research Specialist

Emil Parrinello, Manager of Enterprise Applications & Analytics

All of Queensborough Community College

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Using Interactive OER in Teaching International Criminal Justice

(Workshop)

In this workshop, the participants are introduced to open educational resources (OERs) developed under the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative led by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). These materials can be used in teaching International Criminal Justice, Criminology, International Relations and other social science courses. The participants will also learn about innovative teaching techniques that can be used by instructors to promote project-based and policy-applied learning.

Yuliya Zabyelina, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Pedagogy and OER Development: A Faculty Driven Approach

(Workshop)

Although Zero Cost Textbook courses and textbook replacement are an important part of the CUNY OER initiatives, OERs also represent an opportunity to re-examine approaches to teaching and learning in general. As we move forward into the second semester of the OER initiatives, how can we structure our support for faculty teaching Zero Cost Textbook courses so that they can invigorate their pedagogy and push past simply replacing their textbooks?

Allison Lehr-Samuels, Center for Teaching and Learning Director

Cheryl Smith, Associate Professor of English

Karen Shelby, Assistant Professor of Art History

Laurie Hurson, Hybrid Coordinator

Hamad Sindhi, VOCAT Coordinator

Pamela Thielman, OER Fellow

Andrew McKinney, OER Fellow

All of Baruch College

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Are You Listening? Perspectives on Supporting Inclusive Pedagogy

(Community & Collaboration)

As faculty, IT, CTL, librarians and Accessibility Services, how do we provide barrier-free environments? What do Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and open education resources mean for those with different roles in supporting inclusive pedagogies? With LaGuardia’s new Designing for All project team, this session offers opportunities to share, learn and help build the CUNY-wide movement towards becoming an inclusive learning environment, where every student truly feels welcomed.

Tameka Battle, Associate Professor, Health Science

Justin Brown, Assistant Professor, Health Science

Theresia Litvay-Sardou, Director, Instructional Services and Media Distribution

LaRose Parris, Associate Professor, English

Jhony Nelson, Director, Office for Students with Disabilities

Dusana Podlucka, Assistant Professor, Social Science

Derek Stadler, Assistant Professor, Web Services Librarian

Priscilla Stadler, Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

All of LaGuardia Community College. The speakers will also include student representatives from LaGuardia.

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3D Printing @ BCC: Concept to Reality with Faculty Engagement

(Tools & Assets)

3D printing has been deemed as one of the most dramatic advances in technology in modern times. However, there is not much push for it in higher education, especially in public institutions. CTLT started researching 3D print technology and planning to start a 3D Print Lab for the college in 2014. This workshop will highlight the challenges CTLT faced and how we overcame the hurdles with teamwork and faculty engagement.

Albert Robinson, Assistant Director, The Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)

Delwar Sayeed, Academic Technology Coordinator, CTLT

Mark Lennerton, Director, CTLT

Jose Lai, Academic Technology Applications Manager, CTLT

Carlos Liachovitzky, Lecturer, Biology Sciences Department

All of Bronx Community College

STEAM Projects Using the Raspberry Pi, a Low-Cost Computer

(Tools & Assets)

The Raspberry Pi is a small, powerful, versatile, $40 computer made by a UK-based charity, the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The speaker has used them in his art practice for years. This past semester, the Kingsborough Community College photography club used a Raspberry Pi in building a photo booth. In the process, students learned to work with code and hack hardware in solving physical and digital design challenges.

Tommy Mintz, Assistant Professor of Photography, Kingsborough Community College

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What Cloud Technology Means to Education Today and Tomorrow

(Tools & Assets)

Education institutes have been leveraging the public and private cloud at a varying mix, rate and pace. Whether it be SaaS deployment of Blackboard, Microsoft 0365 or research compute in AWS, cloud is an important part of the education landscape. As the data authority for the hybrid cloud, NetApp has been helping our education customers understand how to leverage the cloud in their environments. In this session, we’ll discuss what cloud is, different types of cloud models, cloud security and how other institutes have been adapting a cloud model to make a better user experience for their students.

Jerimiah Cox, Cloud Architect, NetApp

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Why Is Information More Important Than Data

(Tools & Assets)

While IT leaders are focused on managing their infrastructure today, they need to focus on managing their data. We will discuss the “bumps in the road” and best practices to gain visibility of your data on premises and cloud based. Shift the focus from infrastructure management to information management! As George Westerman, principal research scientist with MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy, said: “When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.”

Doug Snyder, Storage and Availability Distinguished Strategist, Veritas

Phil Yaccino, Senior Strategist, Veritas

Break

Concurrent Sessions II

This World of Humans: A New Science Podcast with Teaching Guides

(Tools & Assets)

This fall, Visionlearning is launching pilot episodes of a new science podcast called This World of Humans, focusing on life and social science. Each guest-interview style episode is accompanied by activities for secondary and postsecondary classrooms to help students make sense of the research article featured in the episode and explore the research process that led to the featured discovery. All materials are free/open source and link to Visionlearning content modules.

Nathan H. Lents, Professor of Biology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Using Virtual Microscopy to Improve Student Access and Success in A&P

(Tools & Assets)

Virtual microscopy (VM) is a powerful digital tool that permits on-demand access, facilitates student learning, enhances the instructor’s ability to teach A&P lab classes, saves time for both students and instructors and, ultimately, saves money that can be used more productively for other facets of the lab. The many pedagogical and practical advantages provided by VM suggest that now is the time for CUNY to consider a transition to VM.

Zvi Ostrin, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciences

Vyacheslav Dushenkov, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciences

Both of Hostos Community College

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GC Digital Initiatives: Facilitating Access to Digital Research

(Community & Collaboration)

This session will focus on the myriad ways Graduate Center Digital Initiatives enables access to digital research methods through pedagogy, outreach and advocacy. Featured projects include our NEH-funded Digital Research Institutes initiative, our Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants and our advocacy efforts on behalf of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We will also discuss GCDI platforms that facilitate access, such as DH Box and the Graduate Center Commons.

Matthew K. Gold, Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives

Lisa M. Rhody, Deputy Director of Digital initiatives

Rachel Rakov, Digital Fellow

Hannah Aizenman, Digital Fellow

Kristen Hackett, Digital Fellow

Patrick Smyth, Digital Fellow

All of The Graduate Center

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Leveraging BYOD for Campus Access

(Tools & Assets)

Brooklyn College (BC) leveraged its custom Android/iOS mobile app to create a secure Digital ID that substitutes for the standard plastic ID card for campus access and Library/Lab checkout. The Digital ID provides increased accuracy and convenience without costly and time-consuming ID validations. BC will describe the infrastructure, planning, security and marketing that made this initiative a roaring success.

Mark Gold, Chief Information Officer

Ursula Chase, Deputy Director of Safety Services

Anatoliy Gamaylo, Senior Developer

Mandisa Washington, Mobile Applications Developer

All of Brooklyn College

Building a One-Button Digital Studio for Faculty Media Creation

(Tools & Assets)

Often, digital creation tools are too complex, training opportunities are not well matched to faculty needs and costs are too high. To address this, CUNY SPS undertook construction of a media production facility modeled on the “One-Button Studio” pioneered by Penn State. The studio enables faculty to record podcasts, demonstrations and Chroma-keyed HD videos. This presentation focuses on the challenges, capabilities and training program designed to encourage turnkey faculty use.

Michael FitzGerald, Professor of Philosophy, Medgar Evers College

Rachel Levine, Associate Dean of Administration and Finance, CUNY School of Professional Studies

Antonia Levy, Instructional Technology and Multimedia Manager, CUNY School of Professional Studies

Bruce Naples, Executive Director of eLearning (Ret.), Queensborough Community College

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University-Wide Licensing of Assistive Technologies: A National Model

(Inclusive Accessibility)

Through the use of various assistive technologies (AT), including screen readers (JAWS), optical character recognition (Open Book), screen enlargers (Zoom Text Fusion) and reading and writing software suites (Wynn), students with disabilities can be accommodated and given tools to access CUNY’s educational

programs and services. These same AT tools can bring benefits to many others in the CUNY community. Where are the opportunities for extending those benefits across CUNY?

Carlos M. Herrera, Services for Students with Disabilities, Queensborough Community College / CUNY IT Accessibility Task Force

Shivan Mahabir, Manager, CUNY Assistive Technology Services Project (CATS)

Bill Kilroy, Senior Sales Director, VFO Group

Mike Wood, Strategic Account Manager – Education, VFO Group

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Beyond Cost Savings: Access and Engagement with OER

(OER)

Research on CUNY students’ experiences accessing and using traditional curricular materials and OER reveals that OER facilitate students’ participation in their courses through improved access. Students note the benefits of learning and access more than saving money, and the convenience of OER enables students to more effectively manage their time. Learning about the benefits students perceive beyond cost savings allows us to leverage OER affordances for increased learning.

Jean Amaral, Open Knowledge Librarian, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Cailean Cooney, Open Educational Resources Librarian, New York City College of Technology

Maura Smale, Chief Librarian, New York City College of Technology

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Technological Tools to Enhance Student Advising and Success

(Student Support Systems)

This presentation will show how collaborative efforts across various divisions of Hunter College resulted in the development of a suite of technological tools to enhance advisers’ outreach and knowledge of their students. The system compiled together key pieces of students’ academic development: admittance criteria, early alerts, academics, professional assessments, NYS certifications and more. Presenters will demonstrate the new tools and discuss how they are used to ensure student success.

Angela T. Haddad, Senior Associate Dean for Student Success, Hunter College School of Arts and Sciences

Brian Maasjo, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Hunter College Division of Student Affairs

Michael Steiper, Chair Committee on Academic Success, Hunter College Senate / Professor, Department of Anthropology

Matthew J. Caballero, Associate Dean, Hunter College School of Education

Paulina G. Vizgan, Systems Manager, ICIT Hunter College

Michael Medved, Oracle DBA, ICIT Hunter College

Rosalyn Alexander, Senior Developer, ICIT Hunter College

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Digital Media Literacy in the Face of Fake News

(Pedagogy)

The speaker will discuss efforts she is making to use her digital media literacy primer, #100hardtruths-#fakenews (http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/index), to activate a new media literacy responsive to fake news: performative, collaborative, multidisciplinary educational programs; place-based, interactive media literacy for all citizens; art answers to illicit questions.

Alexandra Juhasz, Professor and Department Chair, Film, Brooklyn College

Creating Scholarly Social Networks: Challenges and Opportunities

(Pedagogy)

In this panel presentation, the Graduate Center’s Program Social Media Fellows critically reflect on practices and tools used to make information more accessible and strengthen existing scholarly communities. The Fellows draw on six years of experience developing social media campaigns for their respective doctoral programs that encourage scholars to dialogue across platforms, institutions and audiences; consider approaches to public pedagogy; and purposefully craft digital identities.

Naomi Barrettara, Music Social Media Fellow and Program Coordinator

Huber Jaramillo, Latin American and Iberian Languages and Cultures Social Media Fellow

Jennifer Stoops, Urban Education Social Media Fellow

Chloe Wyma, Art History Social Media Fellow

All of The Graduate Center

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Connect2Completion: Unifying It ALL for Advising, DegreePath and Metrics

(Student Support Systems)

Connect2Completion iPASS System: Connect2Completion aggregates and organizes student academic records, degree plans, faculty/advisor/student interactions and service visits. Core functionality encourages faculty/student/staff communication, connecting resources through two-way messaging, chat, emails and Outlook appointments. The motivation/management of the project, overview of system functionality, architecture, data creation and workflows will be covered. We will present student-centered predictive analytics flow from a rich source of operational and institutional data informing continual improvement and strategic planning.

Henry Saltiel, Vice President / Chief Information Officer

Brad Orcutt, Associate Dean, Information Technology

Erez Lenchner, Senior Institutional Researcher, OIRA

All of LaGuardia Community College

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The Connected Classroom: True Collaboration for Teaching and Learning Innovation

(Community & Collaboration)

Innovation on our campuses and in our classrooms requires an environment of unprecedented change. The combined pressures of decreasing budgets, rising enrollments and the ever-present need to continually enhance the learning environment and raise student performance requires innovative models of instruction that empower and engage students and faculty with the use of collaborative tools. This session will explore using collaboration tools in teaching and learning environments and in administration so that the culture of the campus is cohesive and connected.

Mary Schlegelmilch, Cisco Education Advocate, Cisco

Transformational Thinking for Student Success: Innovative Solutions Addressing Success Challenges

(Student Support Systems)

Today’s employers are requiring graduates who have been prepared to research, problem solve and collaborate. Yet, multiple reports suggest a growing disconnect between degree completion in college and university and success in the broader workplace. Through examination of case study examples, hear about thought leading initiatives for student success at campuses across the country that are preparing students for today’s workplace, including innovative learning spaces, learning technologies, analytics, inclusion of virtual reality and IoT.

Jeanne Weber, Higher Education Strategist, Dell EMC

Break

Keynote Presentation – Navigating Affordances and Consequences of the Internet for Education

The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore, increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class and politics, and in the service of something – a position, a profit motive, a means to an end. In this talk, Safiya Umoja Noble, assistant professor in the Annenberg School of Communication at USC, will examine the power struggles over representation on the web, and the consequences of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search.

Safiya Umoja Noble, Professor, University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication

CUNY IT Awards

Adjourn Day 1

Registration / Continental Breakfast

Concurrent Sessions I

Pedagogy of Open Educational Resources: A Hands-On Workshop

(Workshop)

In this interactive session, we’ll use backward design to move from learning outcomes to OER and learn what OERs are, where to find them and how to decipher the Creative Commons licenses. We’ll also explore other no-cost options available through the library and on the web. You’ll leave with OERs in hand and be ready to replace some or all of your course materials with zero-cost options. Participants are encouraged to BYOD.

Jean Amaral, Open Knowledge Librarian, Borough of Manhattan Community College

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Introducing CUNYsmart’s New Student Success Dashboard

(Student Support Systems)

CUNYsmart’s student success dashboard provides relevant, actionable information for faculty, advisors and administrators, enabling an increased focus on student retention, persistence and graduation rates. The dashboard, a Central Office/Lehman collaboration, combines student data from CUNYfirst, DegreeWorks and OIRA and enables multiple views by cohort, ethnicity, major, etc., and drill-down to individual students.

Zev Jeremias, Director of University Technical Development, CUNY Computing and Information Services

Jason Cohen, Director of Special Projects, CUNY Computing and Information Services

Judith Ullman, Business Intelligence Systems Manager, CUNY Computing and Information Services

Michael Himmelstein, Project Manager, CUNY Computing and Information Services

Colin Chellman, University Dean for Institutional Policy and Research, CUNY Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

Ediltrudys Ruiz, Assistant Vice President, Information Technology, Lehman College

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Making Connection to Students in the First Year Seminar

(Workshop)

One of the primary goals of First Year Seminar (FYS) Courses for Business Discipline is the students’ retention. Students have many needs and the faculty at LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC) need to be able to serve the students’ needs so they are able to graduate on time. Thus, the Business and Technology (BAT) department at LAGCC provides the opportunity to use “Connect to Completion (C2C)” application to meet the needs of the students.

Ahmed Abdelhalim, Assistant Professor, Business and Technology Department

Sada H. Jaman, Instructor, Business and Technology Department

Both of LaGuardia Community College

Bridging the Access Gap with Free Technology in a Remedial Classroom

(Workshop)

While technology creates access, it also denies access to a large percentage of the student body at CUNY community colleges, particularly developmental classes. Students who struggle with technological literacy are unable to create a profile or log into online accounts. Socrative and Canvas are free programs that provide opportunities to make strides in technological literacy, as well as addressing the traditional remedial needs of reading and writing.

Elizabeth Carroll, CUNY Start Instructor, Queensborough Community College

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Teaching on the CUNY Academic Commons

(Pedagogy)

This presentation explores the emerging use of the CUNY Academic Commons as a teaching platform for undergraduate courses. Participants in the Spring 2017 CAC Faculty Fellows Program will share how they used the Commons in their courses. Representatives from the Commons team will discuss how this program has inaugurated a new area of focus for the CAC, influencing development priorities and support processes to facilitate undergraduate teaching.

Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, The Graduate Center

Luke Waltzer, Director, Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center

Michael Branson Smith, York College

Laurie Hurson, TLC Fellow, Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center

Andie Silva, Assistant Professor of English, York College

Prithi Kanakemedala, Assistant Professor of History, Bronx Community College

Leah Anderst, Assistant Professor of English, Queensborough Community College

Jennifer Corby, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kingsborough Community College

Janette Tilley, Associate Professor of Music, Lehman College

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OER Sustainable Scale Up: Faculty Development as Key Strategy

(OER)

It’s never easy to find the right date or time for faculty professional development. As a result, the office of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology at CUNY SPS and the office of Online Education at Lehman College, with the support of the Lehman Library, offered a two-week fully online, asynchronous workshop on OER in June 2017. In this panel, you will get a tour of the workshop and hear from the program developers, facilitators and participants.

Olena Zhadko, Director, Office of Online Education, Lehman College

Susan Ko, Director of Faculty Development, NYU School of Professional Studies

Evelyn Duran, Lecturer, Languages and Literatures, Lehman College

Kate Moss, Lecturer, General Education, CUNY School of Professional Studies

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ACCESS in Higher Ed Through the LENS of Student Disability Services

(Inclusive Accessibility)

Join two disability professionals and a panel of CUNY students as we explore the use of technology in both the classroom and Student Disability Services. You will learn how SDS provides access as defined by Section 504; how SDS uses technology to efficiently manage services; how disability professionals procure and select technology; and how our students use this technology every day. And, finally, how can we all do better?

Patricia Clarke Fleming, Director, Student Disability Services

Ronald Bissessar, Student Disability Services Manager

Both of Baruch College

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Blackboard Access for Online and Classroom Courses

(Tools & Assets)

Blackboard is CUNY’s learning management system with almost every campus hosting a large portion of asynchronous, hybrid and web-enhanced coursework. In December 2017, a system upgrade will be taking place that will enhance access and the learning experience. Recently Blackboard (free) and Blackboard Instructor (free) have been launched. We ask you to tell us where the barriers may be. What are the Bb issues for students and faculty?

Carlos Cruz, Instructional Design Specialist / Blackboard and Sakai System Administrator, Brooklyn College

Helen Keier, Manager of Support Services, John Jay Online / Adjunct Professor, Public Management, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Stephen Powers, Professor, Bronx Community College

Krafins Valcin, Academic Applications Support Manager, CUNY Office of Computing and Information Services

Albert Robinson, Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Bronx Community College

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Brooklyn College Stand-Alone Online Promotion and Tenure System

(Tools & Assets)

Brooklyn College is transitioning from a completely paper-based Promotion and Tenure (P&T) system to a stand-alone online application designed by the Library/Office of Academic IT, along with the Provost’s Office. The system is easy to use, has no sharp learning curve and relies on the lowest level of necessary staffing. The system provides instant access to necessary information anywhere, anytime and significantly improves P&T workflow and logistics.

Vyacheslav Gurgov, Manager Technology Initiatives & Academic Applications

Alex Astafurov, Programmer

Nicholas Irons, Associate Director of Faculty Training and Development

Howard Spivak, Director Academic IT

Alex Rudshteyn, Director Library Technology

All of Brooklyn College

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Improving the Cost and Accessibility of Education Through Digital Workspaces

(Student Support Systems)

Come join a discussion with VMware on how their customers have restructured IT services, created, shared and sold a vision of helping students improve school/life balance. Discussion will include how they fundamentally changed delivery of computing resources and improved accessibility of education by delivering applications anytime, anywhere on any device.

Preston Winn, Global Education Solutions Lead, VMware, Inc.

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Optimizing Student Progression: Why Personalization is Key for Completion for UConn

(Student Support Systems)

Completing a credential can be daunting for students without the ability to personalize their academic journey. See how students can effectively plan to achieve their goals with full context for essential academic decisions and, then, confidently register with conflict-free schedules that maximize credit hours while balancing life’s obligations. Institutions can improve persistence and completion rates with enhanced registration services, increased advising bandwidth and visibility into demand, fill rates and degree progression.

Joe Jolesch, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Civitas Learning

Erin Mason, Associate Registrar, University of Connecticut

Break

Welcome

Chancellor’s Remarks

Keynote Presentation – The Evolution of IT at the City University of New York: 1961 – 2031!

The City University of New York was established in 1961 to provide higher education opportunities to the people of New York City and its environs. One important aspect of CUNY’s evolution is the role that IT has played in helping students to learn, faculty to teach and administrators to lead and to serve. The purpose of this presentation is to trace the history of IT at CUNY since its inception. Vignettes of the people who made significant contributions will serve as an important thread throughout this presentation which will conclude with speculation of how IT may evolve in the not-too-distant future. In making this presentation, Dr. Anthony Picciano will rely on his 50 years at CUNY, as well as on material that he collected for his recently published book, CUNY’s First Fifty Years: Triumphs and Ordeals of a People’s University, co-authored with Chet Jordan.

Anthony G. Picciano, Professor, PhD Program in Urban Education, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Lunch (until 2 p.m.)

Concurrent Sessions II

Commons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning

(Tools & Assets)

Commons In A Box OpenLab (CBOX-OL) brings together the Graduate Center’s Commons In A Box (http://commonsinabox.org/) and City Tech’s OpenLab (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/) to create a free software platform for teaching, learning and collaboration. To be released in summer 2018, CBOX-OL

will enable students, faculty and staff to share their work with one another and the world, providing a powerful open alternative to costly proprietary tools.

Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, The Graduate Center

Charlie Edwards, OpenLab Co-Director, New York City College of Technology

Stephen Real, Project Manager, The Graduate Center

Jenna Spevack, OpenLab Co-Director / Professor of Communication Design, New York City College of Technology

Bree Zuckerman, Senior Instructional Technologist, New York City College of Technology

Jill Belli, OpenLab Co-Director / Assistant Professor of English, New York City College of Technology

Lisa Rhody, Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives, The Graduate Center

Jody Rosen, OpenLab Co-Director / Associate Professor of English, New York City College of Technology

Luke Waltzer, Director, Teaching & Learning Center, The Graduate Center

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Complicating Access: From Pragmatic Concerns to Human Connectivity

(Community & Collaboration)

Research on the lived experiences of CUNY undergraduate and graduate students reveals that technology often functions as a productive constraint. Pragmatically, students creatively navigate limited access to technology and its sometimes-limited suitability for academic work, while enjoying technological conveniences. Humanistically, students appreciate digital feedback and instructor availability, while yearning for more in-person connection. Access afforded by technology surfaces complex questions, demanding a nuanced understanding grounded in students’ lives.

Jean Amaral, Open Knowledge Librarian, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Lee Ann Fullington, Health Sciences Librarian, Brooklyn College

Karyna Pryiomka, Doctoral Candidate in Psychology, The Graduate Center

Mariana Regalado, Head of Reference, Brooklyn College

Maura Smale, Chief Librarian, New York City College of Technology

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Tech for Success: Intro Workshops for Students with Disabilities

(Inclusive Accessibility)

To help incoming students with disabilities navigate support services and tools for academic success, the Office of Academic Affairs partnered with Queensborough Community College and John Jay College of Criminal Justice to pilot Technology Workshops, featuring guided, hands-on demonstrations of CUNY’s enterprise software and assistive technologies. Presenters will share successes and challenges of the workshops, including planning, resources, participant feedback and next steps for scalable iterations of the program.

Nadia Griffith-Allen, Deputy Director of Accessibility Services, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Carlos Herrera, Assistant Director, Services for Students with Disabilities, Queensborough Community College

Ashleigh Thompson, University Dean for Education, CUNY Office of Academic Affairs

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Increasing Access Through a Cohort Model

(Community & Collaboration)

Collaboration between the 1199 SEIU union and the College of Staten Island offers free tuition combined with high-touch student support and high-tech training for the 21st century academic environment. Adult students balance college attendance with full-time work based on a "Cohort Model" bringing participants from healthcare worksites all over the city to an off-campus location in Manhattan and access to interactive online resources. This approach enables a diverse and very busy adult cohort to achieve academic success in basic college courses.

William Bernhardt, Associate Professor of English

Chandra Cherry, Lecturer

Judith King, Lecturer

All of College of Staten Island

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Major Academic Plans (MAPs) in Media, Arts and Technology Disciplines

(Workshop)

Do you represent a department which prepares students to work in graphic design, emerging media, interactive design, computer art, app development, advertising – the panoply of Media, Art and Technology? Then join us for this MAPs (Major Academic Plans) workshop, a hands-on brainstorming session to sketch a first vision for an open access tool that allows students to search viable transfer pathways across our programs and campuses.

Janet Esquirol, Assistant Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College

James Richardson, Associate Professor, LaGuardia Community College

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Curate, Adopt, Create: OERs at LaGuardia Community College

(OER)

This panel will explore LaGuardia’s past, present and future plans to adopt and create OERs. Three key factors are used to measure OER success, which have informed efforts at LaGuardia: reducing textbook prices, increasing access to materials and improving student outcomes. This panel will offer ideas on how to create, adopt and curate OERs based upon the experiences of the Library and Math program.

Ian McDermott, Instruction Librarian

Steven Ovadia, Deputy Chief Librarian

Alexandra Rojas, Head of Reference & Public Services

Dianne Gordon-Conyers, Serials Librarian

Silvia Lin Hanick, First Year Experience Librarian

Tao Chen, Assistant Professor

Jeanne Funk, Associate Professor

Alioune Khoule, Assistant Professor

All of LaGuardia Community College

Use of “MyOpenMath” to Develop “Zero Textbook Cost” Section

(OER)

In the fall of 2016, the speaker participated in the initiative to develop a “zero textbook cost” section for MAT 100. The section is approved by the Lumen Learning. In this presentation, the speaker will demonstrate the use of “MyOpenMath” software in developing the course and some pros and cons of using the software. After the presentation, the audience will have some basic ideas about the platform and will be able to start the process of developing their own course using the software.

Tanvir Prince, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Hostos Community College

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LaGuardia 24/7: Information Around the Clock and Around the World

(Student Support Systems)

Tear down informational roadblocks! LaGuardia Community College collaborates across divisions using its online knowledge base “Ask LaGuardia” to provide answers about the college to all students, faculty and staff with one click! Join many of the experts who contribute to Ask LaGuardia; we’ll share the good, bad and the complicated as we continue to build a home for general college knowledge for LaGuardia and the community.

Elizabeth Jardine, Assistant Professor / Metadata Librarian, Lilbrary

Loretta Capuano-Vella, Director, Student Information Services, Division of Student Affairs

Teresa Saljanin, Web Services Manager, IT Department of Information Systems

Gina Taraskewich, Communications Manager for Academic Affairs and Student Affairs, Division of Institutional Advancement

Annette Hamilton, Financial Aid Manager, Student Financial Services

Shaheen Rattani, Admissions Specialist, Office of Admissions

All of LaGuardia Community College

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How to Optimize Existing Resources to Enhance the Student Experience

(Tools & Assets)

Are there any technology solutions in the cupboard? The Financial Aid Offices at BMCC and Brooklyn College were tasked with enhancing the student experience: one through more in-depth financial aid advisement and the other through increased virtual services, respectively. Join us and learn how both financial aid offices overcame obstacles by collaborating with their IT departments to address these challenges through homegrown solutions using existing resources.

Mark Rivera, Associate Director of Financial Aid, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Marcus Richardson, Associate Director of Financial Aid, Brooklyn College

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NY State OER Initiative: Large Scale OER Implementation Across CUNY

(OER)

CUNY was recently funded $4,000,000 from New York State to establish, support and enhance ongoing OER initiatives throughout CUNY. This initiative seeks to engage faculty in the redesign of courses through the replacement of proprietary textbooks with open educational resources. Centrally, the Office of Library Services is providing system-wide coordination in collaboration with campuses. This presentation will discuss the practicalities of the initiative and its many working components.

Ann Fiddler, Open Education Librarian and Project Coordinator

Gregory Gosselin, Interim University Dean of Libraries and Information Systems

Both of CUNY Office of Library Services

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Best Practices: Utilizing Existing Systems to Optimize CUNY Security Infrastructure

(Tools & Assets)

In this presentation, we'll discuss ways we can harden our network firewalls and leverage security features that will optimize our security infrastructure with combating external and internal threats. We'll discuss how security features – such as https inspection – benefits the infrastructure by having that extra layer of visibility with encrypted traffic.

Richard Purizaca, Security Solutions Architect, CDW

360 Degree Protection – Edge to the Core to the Cloud

(Tools & Assets)

It is clear that mobility, BYOD, virtualization, cloud and the IoT present challenges in defending against the advanced, targeted attacks that are becoming more prevalent. Security starts at the switches and routers and extends to network access control. However, organizations also need continuous monitoring that uses machine learning for detection of attacks inside of the network. This session will outline a modern security architecture and the benefits of providing 360 degrees of protection from the edge to the core to the cloud.

Vin Augusto, Senior Systems Engineer, HPE Aruba

Pete Ryan, Director Security Sales – NYC, NJ, MidAtlantic, HPE Aruba

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Concurrent Sessions III

Accessibility in the Time of Limited Resources

(Inclusive Accessibility)

In the spirit of this year’s theme of “opening access,” our panel highlights how library faculty are making technology more accessible for the CUNY community. Despite the rising costs of journal prices and the stagnation of library budgets, librarians have employed low-cost and free techniques to improve access to library services. The panelists’ projects provide helpful examples of CUNY librarians’ work to increase access for our communities through technology.

Robin Davis, Assistant Professor, Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Mark Eaton, Assistant Professor, Library, Kingsborough Community College

Stephen Klein, HEO, Library, Graduate Center

Junior Tidal, Associate Professor, Library, New York City College of Technology

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Accessing Community: Building Student Engagement Through the OpenLab

(Community & Collaboration)

City Tech’s OpenLab is an open digital platform for teaching, learning and collaborating, both inside and outside the classroom. This presentation showcases how the OpenLab cultivates community through student-focused initiatives that increase student engagement and access through open digital technology. These include OERs and open learning; extra-curricular, networking, mentorship and professionalization opportunities; and a team of student bloggers modeling best practices and developing help materials and workshops for other students.

Jill Belli, OpenLab Co-Director / Assistant Professor of English

Charlie Edwards, OpenLab Co-Director

Syelle Graves, OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow

Kristen Hackett, OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow

Andrew McKinney, Senior OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow

Jody R. Rosen, OpenLab Co-Director / Associate Professor of English

Student Bloggers from The Buzz on the OpenLab: Brianna Vasquez, Denise Calungsod, Cherishe Cumma, Nefertiti Francis, Robine Jean-Pierre, Gennessy Palma, Samantha Pezzolanti, Sabrina Vasquez

All of New York City College of Technology

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Blended Learning with a Twist: Sealing the Supervisory Skill-Gap

(Community & Collaboration)

Learn the benefits of blending online and traditional learning for new supervisors. OHRM's Professional Development and Learning Management Office will lead a panel discussion examining the role of technology in the design and delivery of innovative professional development. Panel members from the New Supervisors Professional Development Program will share experiences and discuss the unbridled

potential of using online learning platforms in creating future e-learning opportunities for the CUNY workforce.

Rhonnye Ricks, University Training Director, Central Office/OHRM

Jacqueline Womack-Worrell, Associate Director, Central Office/OHRM

Anastasiya Fatiy, HR Training Coordinator, Central Office/OHRM

Despina Kouvaros, HR Training Specialist, Central Office/OHRM

Ray Bartholomew, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Randessa Atherley, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Patricia Gray, Hunter College

JeVon Taylor, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Christina Lofaso, Borough of Manhattan Community College

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Open Pedagogy/Open Resources: Diversifying and Democratizing OER

(OER)

Open educational resources require help for faculty experimentation. Graduate Center students teaching CUNY courses are a source of creative curricular design. Their pedagogy is enhanced by GC centers’ research, innovation and support. To explore challenges and opportunities in creating and teaching OERs, this panel discusses the American Social History Project’s online multimedia textbook; the Digital Scholarship Lab’s open-source Manifold publishing platform; and the Teaching and Learning Center’s workshops and projects.

Joshua Brown, Executive Director, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning

Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English & Digital Humanities / Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives

Peter Mabli, Assistant Director of Online Professional Development, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning

Luke Waltzer, Director, Teaching and Learning Center

All of The Graduate Center

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C.H.E.S.S.: A Computerized Homework Exercise SyStem

(Workshop)

C.H.E.S.S. (Computerized Homework Exercise SyStem) is an economical, secure and user-friendly online homework system created by CUNY students to address the need for a homework web application that is affordable for students and flexible for instructors. In this workshop, we introduce the CUNY community to C.H.E.S.S. through a PowerPoint presentation, a hands-on C.H.E.S.S. session and a discussion session. Participants are invited to bring their own laptops to participate in the hands-on session.

Viviana Acquaviva, Associate Professor, Physics Department

Hashir Qureshi, Computer Systems Technology Senior

Harpreet Gaur, Computer Systems Technology Junior

All of New York City College of Technology

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Open Educational Resources and the Online Common Core

(OER)

Different approaches for bringing OER to the Common Core with the goal of creating a z-degree-friendly, fully-online General Education "program." Courses discussed include Digital Information, Film and

Culture, Music, Sociology and Writing at Work. OER strategies include curated collections, textbooks from OpenStax and the Open Textbook Network, library databases such as Kanopy and the use of Spotify.

Jennifer Sparrow, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs

Angela Francis, Assistant Director of General Education

Heidi Baez, Associate Director of Institutional Research

Carl James Grindley, Academic Director of Communication and Media

James McElwaine, Adjunct Professor

Kate Moss, Lecturer, General Education

All of CUNY School of Professional Studies

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Expanding Access Through Enterprise Strategic Technology Initiatives

(Tools & Assets)

These initiatives focus on using technology to address critical student needs on a CUNY-wide basis, supporting CUNY’s overarching mission to expand opportunities for learning, academic advisement and mobility for our students. In particular, this panel will discuss:

1. The buildout of the high-speed, state-of-the-art, resilient fiber network

2. The upgrade of Degreeworks

3. The virtual application delivery system

4. Accessibility initiatives

John Bouma, Director of Networks

Olga Vega, IT Project Manager

Richard Chang, Director of Systems, Storage and Virtualization

Wendy Lader, Director of Management Analysis and Communication

All of CUNY Computing and Information Services

CUNY Login: Simplifying Access, Improving Service

(Tools & Assets)

CUNY’s Computing and Information Systems introduces CUNY Login, a common login page from which Blackboard, CUNYfirst and DegreeWorks can be accessed using a single set of credentials. This presentation will describe the improvements in user experience, system performance, stability and integration that resulted from a strategic initiative to improve identity and access management at CUNY. In addition, future plans for CUNY Login will be discussed.

Kimberly Steele, University Director of IT Service Delivery

Christopher Caprioglio, Director of Application Services

Both of CUNY Computing and Information Services

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Amplifying CUNY Voices with CUNY Academic Works

(Community & Collaboration)

While most conversations about open access literature center on journal articles and books, research takes many other forms. CUNY Academic Works provides a platform for, and public access to, a wide range of CUNY-created scholarship. We will discuss the importance of including Women’s Studies Newsletter, Latino Data Project Reports and theses and dissertations in Academic Works, and report on a recent census of journals published by the CUNY community.

Jill Cirasella, Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, The Graduate Center

Adriana Palmer, E-Resources and Institutional Repository Librarian, The Graduate Center

Roxanne Shirazi, Dissertation Research Librarian, The Graduate Center

Megan Wacha, Scholarly Communications Librarian, CUNY Central Office

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End-of-Day Drawing

Conference times, agenda and speakers are subject to change.